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The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pragmatic Engineer

The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch

Feb 4, 2026 · 1h 17m

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Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Every few decades, software engineering is declared “dead” or on the verge of being automated away. We’ve heard versions of this story before. But what if it’s just the start of a new “golden age” of a different type of software engineering, like it has been many times before? In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined once again by Grady Booch , one of the most influential figures in the history of software engineering, to put…